Description:
Block (w: 0.83 x h: 0.42, height incomplete) of grey limestone. In material, size, and style it appears to be uniform with 517, and it is perhaps therefore a part of the missing, right-hand balustrade of the Curia. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel (die, w: 0.50 x ).  
Letters:
Irregular capitals with some Rustic forms: 0.05. 
Date:
Second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: ?Curia 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
now re-used as a voussoir in the Byzantine Gate.  
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Rivista della Tripolitania (Rivista a cura dell'Ufficio di Colonizzazione del Governo della Tripolitania), 2 vols., Roma, 1924-5; a third vol., under the title Libya, published for the Ministero delle Colonie, was issued in 1927 II:70. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.  
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
[·· ? ·· C(aio) Aeli]o
Rufino flam(ini)
Aquilia Blaesilla
mater filio
5piissimo
[·· ? ·········]O
RVFINOFLAM
AQVILIABLAESILLA
MATERFILIO
5PIISSIMO
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
C
</abbr>
<ex>
aio
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Aeli
</supplied>
o
<lb n="2" />
Rufino
<expan>
<abbr>
flam
</abbr>
<ex>
ini
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
Aquilia
Blaesilla
<lb n="4" />
mater
filio
<lb n="5" />
piissimo
</ab>

Translation:

To [·· ? ·· Caius Aelius] Rufinus, flamen (priest); Aquilia Blaesilla his mother to a most dutiful son.

Commentary:

ll. 1-3. C. Aelius Rufinus and Aquilia Blaesilla. See 632, n. 1.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.32)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.32)

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